EHS Software
Certificate of Recognition (COR™)
Streamline the COR process with EHS Software
BIS Safety Software
Help You Achieve and Maintain COR™
The BIS EHS Software includes the functionality that lets you easily meet the COR requirements. Managers can pull and analyze information and reporting as needed or for scheduled audits. Your team can also give external auditors access to the system so they can verify you have your safety procedures, hazard assessments, competency testing, and everything else you need to obtain COR.
Learn how the BIS software can help simplify your COR management
How COR™ can help your company
Certificate of Recognition - COR
The process to get and keep your COR takes a lot of administration. Our EHS software helps relieve stress!
There are dozens of benefits to achieving COR™, but the biggest ones are:
- Qualify for more public and private contracts
- Higher employee morale and satisfaction from a safer work environment
- The perception of a safer work environment to clients, prospective employees, and investors
- Reduced costs associated with workplace incidents, accidents, and injuries
- More time from efficient health and safety management practices
Learn More about COR
A Certificate of Recognition (COR™) is awarded to Canadian companies by certified health and safety organizations who demonstrate that their health and safety systems go above and beyond the legal requirements of the Workers Compensation Act and Occupational Health and Safety Regulation. Each territory and province in Canada manages the COR™ program with their certifying associations, so specific application and maintenance requirements vary slightly across the country.
COR™ would not be nearly as prestigious if it were easy to obtain. The entire COR™ program can take a year or more, so companies should get the process started as soon as possible. The basic steps of COR™ are:
- Apply to a participating organization in the correct territory or province.
- Attend required COR™ courses.
- Create and implement a health and safety management system.
- Pass an internal audit, which is conducted by the full-time employee who attended COR™ courses.
- Pass an external audit, which is arranged by the certifying association.
- Receive a COR™ Letter of Good Standing. If a company does not pass an audit, it can make the necessary adjustments and conduct additional audits until certification is achieved.
COR™ certification is valid for three years from the date of issuance. Compliance is upheld with an internal audit in years one and two, and with an external audit in the last year. Once the third year expires, a company must re-apply from the beginning.
EHS software can help in an audit
Streamline COR™ audits
Internal and external audits include documentation review, observations, and interviews. Specific criteria for audits are found with each certifying association, but generally, the audit looks at the items below:
Health & Safety Policy
A company’s policy statement is a set of principles and general rules that serves as a guide for company actions related to health and safety.
How BIS can help
Digital Policy Statements and Quick Distribution
Within the BIS software, you can use digital form templates or create custom forms for you health and safety policy statements and distribute them to all new and current employees or contractors with the automated Training Matrix
How BIS can help
Create Custom Digital Hazard Analysis Forms
Within the BIS software, you can use digital form templates to perform hazard analysis or create your own form from scratch with the easy to use drag-and-drop tools.
Hazard Analysis
The identification of health and safety hazards that could be the source of damage, harm, or adverse effects on something or someone in the workplace.
Safe Work Practices
Written methods that outline how to perform key job tasks with minimum risks to people, equipment, processes, and the work environment.
How BIS can help
Assign Safe Work Practices by Role
With the Training Matrix and Digital Folders modules, you can auto-assign the right Safe Work Practices to the right employees and contractors based on the role they have in their user profile.
How BIS can help
Assign Training and Track Completions
The BIS system has a secure eCommerce store with a library of over 1,800 courses. You can purchase and assign courses individually, or sign on to one of the subscription packages and utilize the courses within the package as many times as you need. All training certificates are stored in the system and can be viewed at any time. Plus, you receive notifications when training is set to expire.
Training and Communication
Written methods that outline how to perform key job tasks with minimum risks to people, equipment, processes, and the work environment.
Workplace Inspections
Inspections are critical examinations that help identify and record potential workplace hazards that require corrective action, usually conducted with and recorded in reports.
How BIS can help
Complete Digital Inspections and View Reporting
You can set up digital inspections and create schedules and assignments within the system to ensure they happen when and where they are required. You can follow-up by checking the reporting dashboards to see data from any field on your inspection forms.
How BIS can help
Utilize the Incident Management Features
The BIS software has many features designed specifically to help your employees and contractors complete incident reports. Once the form is finished by the initial user or witnesses, it can automatically move on using custom workflows to the supervisors or managers for review and corrective action plans.
Investigations and Reporting
This is a reporting process for workplace incidents, accidents, injuries, and emergencies and is found in the company’s Policy Statement or in a stand-alone policy
